Chapter 12 (1/2)
”So, do we, like, have a sixth sense or something?”
The meeting I Jeremy's room was now moved to Lina's. Jeremy said he wanted to look at her room, thinking that maybe he would feel something there. Lina thought about him giving a vague answer about his s.e.xuality so she wasn't too worried bringing him to her room.
”Probably. This sixth sense thing is usually… bloodline-related, right?” Jeremy asked back.
Lina shrugged. ”Why? Does your ancestry have them?”
”I have an uncle who does,” answered Jeremy. ”Seeing things and stuff, but before this, I had never seen anything. It's only when I started living in that room.”
”Maybe… it's something that only comes when you reach p.u.b.erty?”
”Hoiii! I reached it at 12 just so you know!” Jeremy flipped and threw a pillow towards Lina. Lina laughed. ”Laugh all you want, but what are we going to do?” Jeremy asked.
”The counsellor told me to stay in her room…:
”Hah?! Serious?!”
”Why? What's wrong?”
”Haven't you heard? She'd sometimes hang around behind Delta block alone. A cla.s.smate of mine even said that when he went there to smoke, he saw here laughing, talking alone. Creepy!”
Lina was quiet. She did hear those stories, but she never cared. Hostel kids would sometimes make things up. ”Don't just believe what people said,” Lina said.
Jeremy pause, ”But… hmmm… I myself… don't feel comfortable with her. She… looks at me weirdly.”
”Looks at you weirdly, how?”
”It even seems like a stalker. When I organise a rehearsal in the auditorium, she'd always come and watch…”
”Maybe she likes theatre too…”
”There was that one time she asked how I was doing in my cla.s.s.”
”Okay, that's weird.”
”Told ya!”
Lina and Jeremy were both silent.
”Maybe she likes you,” Lina suggested.
”She's old for goodness' sake!”
”Not too old. She still looks hot from what I can see.”
”Or could it be that you're the one interested in her? How great, you'll be living in the same room,” Jeremy teased.
This time, it was Lina's turn to throw a pillow towards Jeremy. They laughed.
And Lina felt that… it had been long since she let out a sincere laugh like that.
Khalil arrived in his hotel room and immediately threw his body on the bed. Tired. It took him 3 hours to arrive here from his home by car. Old Said, his driver, offered to drive the car - but Khalil didn't want to involve anyone else in his business this time. It's too personal.